Tuesday, December 4, 2012

1) How have artists throughout history used windows and doors in their work to show more than one space?

Two different stories → One window/door could show one aspect while the other door could show another

Lighting → Different moods

Inside and outside → Nature

Moods → Different lights create different moods

Shapes and light → Geometric shapes

2) How can windows and doors work on an emotional or metaphorical level to communicate big ideas?

Freedom

Closed door/window could mean the blocking of freedom

Someone opening a door or window could mean the want of freedom

Open window/door could mean the ability to have freedom → More relaxed setting (Less tension)

Safety

Closed door/window might mean that someone is safe

A closing of a door or window could mean that someone is trying to get free from the outside world or things that might harm them

An open window or door could mean that someone or something is more susceptible to harm (Burglary, murder, stealing, ect.)

Any of these can add emotion to the artwork by adding a story, tension, calming, or really any kind of emotion. This is what the artist is trying to do → Open up your emotions make the person who is looking at the artwork feel something weather it is dislike, controversy, or happiness.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

In freshman year I started a project that I never got around to finishing. It was my only art project that I really did not get done so I brought it in to finish it. It was a drawing and it was supposed to represent my grandmother. It is the Japanese Rising Sun flag and in the red there are mostly bad memories and in the white memories she thinks of.

Japanese Rising Sun Flag

In the right hand corner I drew a picture of my grandmother and my grandfather, it was their wedding photo.

My Grandmother And Grandfather's Wedding Photo

In the top right hand corner I drew the Vermont flag because that is where my grandfather is from. On that same side I put 1996 and 1961 because those are the years of my birth and my mom's. The left hand side has the man-of-war Jellyfish. When my grandmother was little her brother got stung by many man-of-war Jellyfish and she has been scared of the swimming ever-since. To the right of the Jellyfish there is a tree because, like me, my grandmother was a little trouble maker. When she was little she tied her brother up to a tree because he was bothering her. So the tree represents that moment that she thinks fondly of. On the bottom left hand corner there is a close up drawing of the Japanese wood block painting of "The Wave" and the pages of Beethoven's music floating in it. My grandmother loved Beethoven as a child and she remembers listening to it with her father.

The Great Wave

Next to that I put a Singer sewing machine because this is a memory that she has with her mother. Because her mother taught her how to sew.
The part I needed to finish was the middle. Before I had the solders in Hirojima lifting up the American flag. But I did not like the idea of war in the middle of her life so instead I drew a lady holding a samurai sword. For some reason this image reminded me of women's rights in Japan because men were the ones that went out and fought but this women looked like a samurai. My grandmother told me before that women's rights in her time was much different than it is now. And that they were just suppose to stay home, cook, and raise the children. I also tried to paint similar to the Japanese wood block paintings. To the right of the women I drew a line of people traveling thought the mountains. My grandmother has had a different life than a lot other people and she has traveled a long way to be where she is today. So this picture represents the journey of her life. I drew both of these in the island of Shikoku in which she was born and raised in.

Around the Island I wrote worlds in Japanese such as "Japan", "Mimi", "Emma", "Paula" "Jack" and "Shikoku".

The Final Product

The start of the new term started the next project. For this term I really want to get more done then I did last term. Which means small projects. This next project I got from a website called Pintrest. It was a quick process that I got done in two days. The first day I painted a black tree (without any leaves). The next day I mixed some paint to get a pink color and I took a plastic Coca-Cola bottle and dipped it into the paint and then placed it on the paper. The final result made the painting look like a Japanese cherry blossom tree.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

For this piece my idea first started with the image of a 3D plane that looked a little antique. Without thinking much of the process I just started designing the plane and cutting it out of a black foam board. When I was thinking of making it look old I also had this post cards that I had collected that were made from old posters of national parks. For the project I wanted to mesh these two looks together. To make the project more original I made some of my own postcards that looked similar to the retro ones. Using Photoshop I took photos of trips that I have taken. The photos that were put on the plane had low color schemes and had some text explaining where the picture was taken. Collaging the images on the plane was a little difficult because all the space needed to be filled on the plane's surface and there were some weird angles. It was a very active project which made it fun to work with and unlike with some other pieces I have started working on I did not get bored with this one.
It was a long process: Designing the plane, figuring out the measurements and dimensions for it, cutting it out of the board, making the post cards, printing them out, and then finally cutting and gluing them onto the plane. Although I did not accomplish more than one project this term I still feel like a got a lot done. It was a new learning experience for me because I have never done something like this project nor have I made a 3D project really. Once I was done with the plane project the next one I wanted to get done was quick because I had already started it freshman year. It was this drawing that was suppost to represent my grandmother. The drawing looks like that Japanese sun flag during World War One. In the red I drew bad memories of her and in the white good ones. The the part that I wanted to finish was the middle at first I started with a drawing of the solders putting up the American Flag in Iwo Jima. But then I erased that and in its place I drew the islands that she was born in, a Japanese girls holding a samurai sword, and people walking through the mountains. these were wood block images that I wanted to try to copy the style of. Since I am not the greatest painter I wanted to work with it a little more to feel a little more out of my comfort zone. During this last week I am working on this project and trying to finally complete it.

Including Beaver I have only been to two schools in my life. In my old school, Thacher Montessori, art was very important. Every since I started their (Kindergatten) the students were making art. We didn't have an art class in Kindergarten but we would have these "free" periods where we could do anything we wanted in the class. They had little play easels that were set up and finger paint in jars. So my first art experience was finger painting. When my dad gave me my first sketch book I remember drawing something with my sister. She went to college for art so is a great artist. Of course my little scribbles were nothing compared to her drawings but it was still fun to be creating art with her. She would draw something then I would attempt to color it in. Or she would draw something and I would add something onto her drawing then she would add something onto mine. In Thacher when we started first grade that is when we started taking art classes with Ms. Mills. We did all kinds of art with her: Clay modeling, painting, drawing, glass cutting, wood working, and mostly any kind of art. It was fun to work with different materials everyday.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Drawing can be an action or a thing. It can be what ever the artists want it to be. Today, in class, people were saying that a drawing can only be only 2D, I don't think that. Even the littlest doodle can look 3D. It depends on how you look at a drawing and how you use it. Some people say that they can not draw because they don't have the skills. But anyone can draw. Sure some drawings are better than others but a drawing can be anything.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

For this piece my idea first started with the image of a 3D plane that looked a little like an antique. Without thinking much of the process I just started designing the plane and cutting it out of a black foam board. When I was thinking of making it look old I also had these old post cards that I had collected. They were designed from old posters of national parks. For the project I wanted to mesh these two looks together. To make the project more original I made some of my own postcards that looked similar to the retro ones. Using Photoshop I took photos of trips that I have taken. The photos that were put on the plane had a low color scheme and had some text explaining where the picture were taken. Collaging the images on the plane was a little difficult because all the space needed to be filled on the plane's surface and there were some weird angles. It was a very active project which made it fun to work with and unlike with some other pieces I have started working on I did not get bored with this one.

It was a long process: Designing the plane, figuring out the measurements and dimensions for it, cutting it out of the board, making the post cards, printing them out, and then finally cutting and gluing them onto the plane. Although I did not accomplish more than one project this term I still feel like a got a lot done. It was a new learning experience for me because I have never done something like this project nor have I made a 3D project really.
Once I was done with the plane project the next one I wanted to get done was quick project because I had already started it freshman year. It was this drawing that represents my grandmother. The drawing looks like that Japanese sun flag during World War Two. In the red I drew bad memories of her and in the white good ones. The the part that I wanted to finish was the middle at first I started with a drawing of the solders putting up the American Flag in Iwo Jima. But then I erased that and in its place I drew the islands that she was born in, a Japanese girls holding a samurai sword, and people walking through the mountains. these were wood block images that I wanted to try to copy the style of. Since I am not the greatest painter I wanted to work with it a little more to feel a little more out of my comfort zone. During this last week I am working on this project and trying to finally complete it.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

I have been collecting the postcards from places that I have traveled and more. I also wanted to make an model airplane because ever since I was little I wanted to be an aerospace engener and I have always been fascinated by planes. After some brainstorming I came up with an idea to make a collage using the postcards and paste it on the plane. Designing the plane was easy and the material I used for it was a foam bored.

When in came to making a collage for the pictures I did not want to cut up the postcards that I have collected so instead I made some of my own versions of them. I used pictures that I took from trips that I made then made them look similar to the old posters.

Here is one of the postcards that I designed on Photoshop

Making postcard on Photoshops

Ms. Patel helped me a lot with printing out the photos onto photo paper. I am still working on putting the photos onto the plane itself. Cutting the pictures and filling up all the spaces is difficult and I am also wondering if I have enough pictures to fill in all the free space.

The reason why this video clip was named "Space" was because space and places are where people get inspired. People get drawn to something particular anywhere such as these artists did and they are amused and inspired by it.